ABC's The Note: CBS News Experts Say Their Concerns Were Ignored

Not that these folks are rats, of course. These folks are doing the right thing (if a little bit later than I might have liked).

So I guess that metaphor doesn't work.

Let's try again:

The human passengers are abandoning the ship, leaving just the rats at CBS and the Boston Globe and the New York Times on the ship, and, shortly, we hope, after a more thorough scrutiny of the ship (actually the story), these rats (actually also human beings with ratlike qualities) will begin abandoning the ship (which, once again, is actually a metaphor for the story).